"Current Dynamics, Changing Perspectives"
Opening Plenary Slideshow
“Current Dynamics, Changing Perspectives” – Elebash Recital Hall
Opening and Moderator: Mauricio Font (Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies)
“Internal Dynamics in Cuba”
Jorge I. Domínguez
Vice-Provost for International Affairs
Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics
Harvard University
“Strategy for a New U.S. Policy toward Cuba”
Ambassador Vicki Huddleston
Brookings Institution
U.S. Department of State (R)
“Cuba: Current Challenges and Alternate Economic Futures”
Archibald R.M. Ritter
Professor of Economics
Carleton University (Canada)
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About the Moderator:
For more information on Mauricio Font click here.
About the Panelists:
Jorge I. Domínguez is Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics and Vice Provost for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of various books, among them Cuba hoy: Analizando su pasado, imaginando su futuro (Madrid: Editorial Colibrí, 2006); To Make a World Safe for Revolution: Cuba's Foreign Policy (Harvard University Press, 1989); and Cuba: Order and Revolution (Harvard University Press, 1978). He is co-editor of The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press, 2004). He has also published many articles on domestic and international politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. A past President of the Latin American Studies Association, he currently serves on the various editorial boards, among them Cuban Studies. He was Series Editor for the Peabody Award-winning Public Broadcasting System television series, Crisis in Central America, which included a one-hour documentary on Cuba. In January 2007, he inaugurated Harvard’s study abroad program at the University of Havana.
For more information on Jorge Dominguez click here.
Ambassador Vicki Huddleston is an expert on Latin America and Africa. A career member of the Foreign Service, she served as U.S. Ambassador to Mali and Madagascar, acting U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia and Chief of the American Interests section in Cuba.
For more information on Amb. Vicki Huddleston and to view the full page click here.
Archibald R.M. Ritter is a Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Carleton University, Ottawa Canada. He has been interested in Cuba since his days as a student, and has written on its economy and development experience. Among his publications on Cuba are “The Economic Development of Revolutionary Cuba: Strategy and Performance,” New York: Praeger 1974, “The Cuban Economy,” Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004 (editor), and various articles and chapters in books. Together with a Cuban Professor, he was an initiator and co-ordinator of a Masters in Economics program provided at the University of Havana for young professors from 1994 to 1999. His research interests and publications relate also to development issues in East Africa and Latin America, together with the international economy and the international mineral economy.
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